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J.T. Snow felt an avalanche of pressure 21 years ago after being demoted to Triple-A Edmonton when he encountered roving hitting instructor Joe Maddon. “I’m wondering who the heck this guy is, and he would call me ‘Jackie,’” recalled Snow, whose initials stand for Jack Thomas. “They didn’t have computers back then, but he was one of the first guys with a laptop. He would be logging players’ swings, listing the counts and results.” Despite the disappointment of a demotion from the Angels in his rookie season in 1993 and meeting an instructor for the first time with then-unusual methods, Snow summed up Maddon in one word: ...

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J.T. Snow felt an avalanche of pressure 21 years ago after being demoted to Triple-A Edmonton when he encountered roving hitting instructor Joe Maddon.
“I’m wondering who the heck this guy is, and he would call me ‘Jackie,’” recalled Snow, whose initials...